Township

This article is about the Township skill. For training the skill, see Township/Training.

Township

Township is a skill which tasks the player with running a town inside the land of Melvor. Similar to Farming, it can be trained relatively passively. However, unlike Farming, Township has no Mastery levels, and uses a unique tick system instead of constantly running. Ticks are a passively generated resource at a rate of 1 Tick per 5 minutes. Ticks can be spent at any time to progress your town, affecting all aspects of your town from population to resources, and with no limit on the amount of Ticks you can store, the town does not need constant attention to run.

It is important to note that you receive unspent ticks with a minimum of 144 ticks back when you reset your town. Starting over can be useful and should not be cause for alarm.

Town

A Town contains buildings that are used to produce resources and income for the player. The buildings are built on purchased land that exists in a map's biomes.

Maps

The following maps are available to start a Town. A Town must be completely reset to change maps.

Map	Grasslands	Forest	Desert	Water	Swamp	Arid Plains	Mountains	Valley	Jungle	Snowlands
Map 1	231	296	256	280	174	88	129	149	204	241
Map 2	151	333	55	251	161	157	277	63	301	339
Map 3	212	161	112	260	237	172	206	190	249	249
Map 4	502	167	279	276	235	133	106	114	90	146
Map 5	258	47	305	296	77	245	126	219	217	258
Map 6	333	184	331	6	153	288	223	305	73	152
Map 7	346	153	317	204	51	243	51	391	102	190
Map 8	71	324	24	337	321	372	131	423	45	0
Map 9	98	47	30	73	73	157	335	366	387	482
Map 10	124	180	460	45	376	110	135	104	40	474
Map 11	221	534	124	0	0	108	227	479	315	40
Map 12	163	462	174	100	124	69	194	378	274	110

Land

Each building requires a piece of land to be built. A map starts with 32 free pieces of land which are randomly assigned to the various biomes. Each subsequent piece of land becomes progressively more expensive. When a Town is reset, land that has already been purchased may be reassigned to different biomes for free.

A total of 7,464,639,466 is required to purchase all 2,048 tiles of land. For more details, see Land.

Biomes

Each biome can build a restricted number of buildings. In addition, some buildings have production bonuses in certain biomes. Lastly, the Desert biome consumes 60 Clothing per building per tick, and the Snowlands biome consumes 30 Coal per building per tick. Biomes are covered in more detail in the buildings section.

Stats

Statistics are various properties in the Town that do not take up Storage space.

Population

Population is the most important resource in Township - without it, the skill produces nothing and earns no experience. The population cap is gained by building Basic Shelter, and spending ticks will cause population to increase until it reaches the cap.

For every citizen in the Town, the player gains 0.3 experience per tick. This amount is further increased by Happiness, up to an additional 100% bonus, which is additively added to normal skill boosts.

To maximize experience, once a basic Town setup is completed, Happiness should always be at 100% to provide at least 0.6 experience per citizen per tick.

If less than 40% of the total population is living in the Town, then the population has a 100% chance to grow each tick. At 70% of total population, the growth chance is 70%, and at 100% total population, the growth chance is 40%. The number of citizens will increase by 1.5% every growth phase.

A citizen ages by 1 year every 8.7 ticks, meaning that it takes approximately 3.02 real-life days to age from 0 to 100 years old.

Workers

Available Workers indicates the number of citizens that are available to perform jobs in the Town. All citizens with an age between 8 and 70 are considered Workers. The left number indicates the number of jobless Workers, out of the total amount on the right.

Unemployed citizens generate -5 Happiness.

Storage

Storage allows Resources to be stockpiled in the Town. A Town starts with a base Storage of 19,000, and is gained by building Storehouse. In addition, Basic Shelter contributes a small amount of storage space. No resources can be gained past the storage cap, and hitting the cap will cause buildings that consume resources to continue doing so.

Happiness

Happiness is a modifier to the amount of experience you earn. Happiness provides a flat increase to the amount of experience you earn, where 1% Happiness increases experience by 1%. The max amount of Happiness is twice your Population.

Each point of Education provides 1 Happiness, and is often the main source of a Town's Happiness. In additiona, a small amount of Happiness is gained or lost from each building in the Town. Notably, Gardens and Tavern buildings are intended to increase Happiness. Lastly, Happiness is decreased by 5 points for every overflowing corpse and unemployed citizen, and Happiness is decreased by 40% and 50% additively from a Potions shortage for elderly citizens and a Clothing shortage from buildings in the Desert biome.

Education

Education is a modifier to the amount of Resources each building produces. Education provides a flat increase to the amount of production, where 1% Education increases production by 1%. The max amount of Education is three times your Population.

Every point of Education also provides one point of Happiness. Education is produced from School and Library buildings.

Health

Health is a mechanic that calculates when elderly citizens will die. Each citizen aged 55 or above has a chance of dying every tick. Citizens die automatically at age 100, any other citizen that dies will be added to the Dead Storage. The base chance for a citizen to die each tick is expressed by:

[math]\displaystyle{ \textrm{DeathChance} = \frac{100 - \textrm{healthPercent}}{38100} \times (2 + \frac{\textrm{healthPercent}}{100}) }[/math]

In the above calculation, [math]\displaystyle{ \textrm{healthPercent} }[/math] is the % health as displayed in-game. If we consider [math]\displaystyle{ \textrm{sickness} }[/math] to be the decimal representation of "un-health" (i.e. [math]\displaystyle{ \frac{100 - \textrm{healthPercent}}{100}) }[/math], this simplifies to:

[math]\displaystyle{ \textrm{DeathChance} = \frac{\textrm{sickness}}{381} \times (1 + \textrm{sickness}) }[/math]

[math]\displaystyle{ \textrm{DeathChance} }[/math] is increased by 0.05 if there is no food after resources for the tick are calculated. Citizens will also die if there are more of them than the housing allows for.

The table below gives some examples.

Health	Chance of death per tick
0%	0.52%
25%	0.34%
50%	0.20%
75%	0.08%
100%	0%

Health is first calculated using the following parameters weighted out of 235:

Happiness with a weight of 100
Education with a weight of 100
Nonzero Potions stockpile and positive growth rate contributes 15 weight
Nonzero Clothing stockpile and positive growth rate contributes 15 weight
Nonzero Herbs stockpile and positive growth rate contributes 5 weight

This is then modified by any "total health" modifiers and expressed as a percentage capped between 0 and 100%.

Dead Storage

Dead Storage represents the number of citizens that have died from poor Health. This storage is created by building Cemetery. 1% of the total Dead Storage will be cleared every hour (12 ticks).

Corpses overflowing the maximum Dead Storage generate -5 Happiness.

Worship

Worship is a stat that provides multiple powerful bonuses based on the chosen Deity. It is gained by building Chapel or Statue of Worship and has a set cap of 2000. Note that although each Deity is associated with a different Statue of Worship, all statues have identical benefits.

All bonuses are additive with one another.

Worship	Aeris	Glacia	Terran	Ragnar	Bane
Requirements	None	None	None	None	Completion of Impending Darkness Event
0% 0/2000	-50% Township GP Production +25% Township Building Production in Mountains Biome +25% Township Leather Production	-50% Township Building Production in Arid Plains Biome -50% Township Building Production in Mountains Biome +25% Township Building Production in Water Biome +25% Township Production for Fishing Dock buildings -50% Township Building Production in Desert Biome	-75% Township Leather Production +25% Township Production for Farm buildings +25% Township Production for Woodcutting buildings -50% Township Production for Fishing Dock buildings	+25% Township Building Production in Arid Plains Biome +50% Township Building Happiness Penalties -50% Township Herb Production +25% Township Production for Blacksmith buildings	-75% Township Education -75% Township Happiness +25% Township Building Production in Grasslands Biome +25% Township Building Production in Jungle Biome
5% 100/2000	+25% Township Happiness	+25% Township Education +25% Township Building Production in Valley Biome +25% Township Production for Magic Emporium buildings	+25% Township Building Production in Forest Biome +25% Township Herb Production +25% Township Production for Orchard buildings	+25% Township Building Production in Desert Biome -50% Township Coal Usage	-25% Township Citizen Food Usage +25% Township Dead Storage
25% 500/2000	+25% Township Leather Production	+25% Township Production for Fishing Dock buildings	+25% Township Production for Orchard buildings	+25% Township Production for Blacksmith buildings -25% Township Coal Usage	+25% Township Building Production in Jungle Biome
50% 1000/2000	+25% Township Building Production in Mountains Biome	+25% Township Building Production in Water Biome +25% Township Building Production in Valley Biome	+25% Township Production for Woodcutting buildings +25% Township Building Production in Forest Biome	+25% Township Building Production in Desert Biome +25% Township Building Production in Arid Plains Biome	+25% Township Dead Storage
85% 1700/2000	+25% Township GP Production	+25% Township Building Production in Arid Plains Biome +25% Township Building Production in Mountains Biome +25% Township Building Production in Desert Biome	+25% Township Production for Fishing Dock buildings +25% Township Leather Production	+25% Township Herb Production -25% Township Building Happiness Penalties	+25% Township Education +25% Township Happiness
100% 2000/2000	-15% Township Building Cost +25% Township Happiness	+25% Township Education -15% Township Building Cost	-15% Township Building Cost +25% Township Production for Farm buildings +25% Township Herb Production	-15% Township Building Cost +25% GP gained from Township Citizen Tax	-50% Township Citizen Food Usage -15% Township Building Cost
Total	+50% Township Building Production in Mountains Biome -15% Township Building Cost +50% Township Leather Production +50% Township Happiness -25% Township GP Production	+50% Township Building Production in Water Biome +50% Township Production for Fishing Dock buildings +25% Township Production for Magic Emporium buildings -25% Township Building Production in Desert Biome -25% Township Building Production in Mountains Biome +50% Township Education -15% Township Building Cost -25% Township Building Production in Arid Plains Biome +50% Township Building Production in Valley Biome	-15% Township Building Cost +50% Township Production for Orchard buildings -50% Township Leather Production +50% Township Building Production in Forest Biome +50% Township Production for Woodcutting buildings +50% Township Production for Farm buildings +50% Township Herb Production -25% Township Production for Fishing Dock buildings	+25% GP gained from Township Citizen Tax +50% Township Building Production in Arid Plains Biome -25% Township Herb Production +50% Township Production for Blacksmith buildings -15% Township Building Cost +25% Township Building Happiness Penalties -75% Township Coal Usage +50% Township Building Production in Desert Biome	-50% Township Education +50% Township Building Production in Jungle Biome -15% Township Building Cost +50% Township Dead Storage -50% Township Happiness +25% Township Building Production in Grasslands Biome -75% Township Citizen Food Usage

Resources

There are a total of 13 resources. The production of all resources can be increased by up to 100% through Education, stacking additively with any regular modifiers.

GP is a special type of resource that is deposited directly into the player's bank, while the other 12 resources are kept in Storage. This is the only resource that is exceptionally not affected by Education or other production bonuses. A citizen produces 0.3 per tick per percentage point of tax, or 0.6 per tick per percentage point if over 70 years old. GP production is not affected by any global GP modifiers such as Aorpheat's Signet Ring.

The other 12 resources may be used within the town, or traded via the Trading Post to obtain items for the player (see Trading Post). The production of a building is calculated as follows: [math]\displaystyle{ \textrm{Production} = \textrm{BaseProduction}\times(1 + \textrm{BuildingBiomeBonus} + \textrm{WorshipBiomeBonus} + \textrm{WorshipBuildingBonus})\times(1 + \textrm{Education}+\textrm{GenericProductionBonus}) }[/math]

Food is used to feed citizens. Each citizen will consume 30 Food per tick.

Wood is a basic resource used to build the lowest-level buildings.

Planks are produced from Wood and are used to build low- to high-level buildings.

Stone is used to build buildings of all levels. A large amount of stone is needed for high-level buildings.

Bar is produced from Ore and Coal. It is used to build mid- to high-level buildings.

Ore has no use, except to be converted into Bar.

Coal is consumed by buildings built in the Snowlands biome. In addition, it can be converted into Bar.

Rune Essence is used to build high-level buildings.

Herbs provide a very small Health bonus, but are mainly used to be converted into Potions.

Potions are consumed by citizens over the age of 55, and provides a small Health bonus. If there are not enough Potions, a 40% Happiness penalty is applied.

Leather has no use, except to be converted into Clothing.

Clothing is consumed by buildings built in the Desert biome, and provide a small Health bonus.

Buildings

Upgrades

	1 1	15 200	35 500	60 2500	80 4000	100 6000	110 13000
Housing	Basic Shelter Wooden Hut	House	Cottage	Large Cottage		Manor	Estate
Storage	Storehouse		Warehouse		Repository		Large Repository
Education	School		Large School		Academy		Large Academy
Potions	Herbalist		Infirmary		Healing Centre		Hospital
Food	Farmland	Plantation		Mill		Farming Estate
Minerals	Miners Pit	Miners Field		Miners Quarry		Miners Estate
Wood	Woodcutter Camp	Logging Camp		Forestry Camp		Forestry Estate
Metal	Blacksmiths Smithy	Blacksmiths Workshop		Blacksmiths Forge		Blacksmiths Estate
Fishing	Fishermans Dock		Fishermans Pier	Fishermans Port			Fishermans Estate
Carpentry	Carpenters Workshop		Carpenters Factory	Carpenters Foundry		Carpenters Estate
Leather	Hunters Cabin		Hunters Lodge	Hunters Villa		Hunters Estate
Herbs	Gatherers Hut		Gatherers Lodge	Gatherers Villa		Gatherers Estate
Clothes		Tailor	Clothier		Outfitter		Clothiers Estate
Runes				Magic Emporium